Added to the crypto trading platform "meinKrypto" operated by Germany's DZ Bank, which received MiCAR authorization from BaFin in late December 2025 and is set to launch shortly.

A whale or institution swapped 282.1 BTC (valued at $26.33 million) for 8,098 ETH at a price of $3,251 per ETH on January 14, 2026, using THORChain cross-chain swap tools.

Total stablecoin transfer volume on Ethereum reached an all-time high of approximately $8 trillion in Q4 2025.

GitHub development activity increased by 40.2% over the past week following the holiday period.

Bitmine chairman Tom Lee is seeking shareholder approval to expand toward a 5% Ethereum supply target, with the company currently holding 4.17 million ETH worth over $13 billion.

Holds approximately 77% of Ondo Finance's total value locked, representing approximately 11.6% of all real-world asset TVL on Ethereum.

Holds over $11 billion in wrapped Bitcoin on the network.

Taker buy volume reached $112M in a 5-minute period on January 13, 2026.

5HTP capital arm holds investment positions in Ethereum as part of its venture and liquid investment portfolio.

Activated Pectra upgrade improving scalability and staking efficiency in 2025.

ETF experienced net inflow of $5,100,000 on January 12th, 2026.

Proposed legislation classifies Ethereum as a non-ancillary asset, exempting it from disclosure requirements that apply to other tokens, effective January 1, 2026.

Outlined strategies to achieve protocol ossification and quantum resistance by shifting to hash-based cryptography and STARKs.

Generated approximately $5 billion in revenue from stablecoin issuer deployments in 2025.

L1 fees fell 85% in 2025

MEV builder profitability collapsed by 90% with revenue per block reaching approximately $20

Bank of Italy warns that ETH price collapse could undermine Ethereum security and financial settlement infrastructure

Deployment cost for an ERC-4337 decentralized smart wallet reached $0.15 on January 12, 2026.

Over $68 million bridged to Solana from other chains in the seven days ending around January 12, 2026, including over $40 million from Ethereum.

Ekubo Protocol V3 launched on Ethereum and Arbitrum with a new frontend enabling V3 position creation on both networks.

Mainnet had more weekly active addresses than any other chain in the ecosystem during the week ending January 12, 2026.

BlackRock deposited 7,204 ETH ($22.42M) to Coinbase Prime on January 12, 2026.

Added more than 1 million net new ETH to the Validator Entry Queue in the first 12 days of 2026.

ETH deposited on Aave via Ethereum reached an all-time high.

JPMorgan launched tokenized fund on Ethereum

Executed the second Blob Parameters Only (BPO) fork, raising blob limits to 14 target and 21 max to increase data capacity and reduce L2 costs.

Integrated into Google's Universal Commerce Protocol as a supported payment method through x402 payments.

Open interest in coin-denominated terms has returned to the level observed just before the October capitulation event.

Solved the blockchain trilemma with the advent of zkEVMs and PeerDAS according to Vitalik Buterin

Zero-knowledge proofs are becoming a core part of the mid-term roadmap, with native ZK integration planned to help scale while maintaining security, decentralization, and censorship resistance.

Number of new addresses reached nearly 300,000, an all-time high.

Introduced EIP-7825 tx gas limit cap in Fusaka hardfork with a new RPC method called eth_txGasLimitCap for querying the cap.

Robinhood's Ethereum L2 built on Arbitrum is currently operating on a private testnet.

Saw almost $50 billion in net inflows over the past year (approximately January 2025 to January 2026).

ETH/USD margin trading pair with up to 5× leverage became available on Gemini.

Reached 276,909,100 holder count.

Average swap transaction cost on Ethereum L1 is $0.03

BlackRock clients sold $84.7 million in ETH.

Reached zero ETH waiting to be unstaked for the first time since July 2025.

Sold 75,200 ETH ($254 million) at an average price of $3,383 through exchange transfers, realizing $204.9 million in gains, with 26,000 ETH ($80.16 million) remaining from an original position of 101,000 ETH accumulated five years ago at $660 average cost.

Optimism proposes buybacks of OP tokens using Ethereum chain revenue.

Included as one of the component assets in the newly launched Nasdaq CME Crypto Index by Nasdaq and CME Group.

Supported as collateral for zero-interest crypto loans launched by Nexo through fixed-term borrowing that can be settled using stablecoins or collateral at maturity.

ETFs recorded net outflows of approximately $183 million on January 9, 2026.

A whale opened a $104,451,000 long position on January 9th, 2026.

Five new perpetual swap markets launched on GMX across Ethereum and other networks on 2026-01-09, bringing the total to 103 markets.

Reached 5 million monthly stablecoin addresses in December 2025, up from 3.4 million in December 2024.

Tokenized stocks on Ethereum total $752 million, ranking second behind Solana's $808 million.

Over $1 billion in liquidations at risk with $1.64 billion in short positions vulnerable to a 10% rally and $1.05 billion in long positions vulnerable to a 10% decline.

ETFs saw outflows in December 2025 even as equity ETFs recorded strongest monthly inflows with $235B globally.

Trading volume accounts for approximately 23% of total crypto market trading volume.

Metalpha withdrew 6,000 ETH ($18.67M) from Kraken on 2026-01-09.

Subject to mandatory transaction reporting by crypto exchanges and service providers in Colombia under DIAN Resolution No. 000240, effective for the 2026 tax year with first filing due in May 2027, requiring disclosure of account holder identity, transaction amounts, volumes, and market value, with penalties up to 1% of transaction value and automatic reporting for single transfers over $50,000.

Surpassed by Solana in 24-hour perpetuals trading volume as of January 9, 2026.

Trader pension-usdt.eth closed a 20,100 ETH ($62.34 million) short position for $395,000 profit and opened a 3× long position on 20,000 ETH ($62 million), bringing total profits to over $22.38 million.

Bitmine has deposited over 1 million ETH (1.032 million ETH, valued at $3.215 billion) into PoS staking, representing one quarter of their total 4.143 million ETH holdings.

Recorded 87,406 social mentions over a 24-hour period, ranking second among all cryptocurrencies by social mention volume.

Holds 68.2% of total DeFi TVL across all networks.

Full node storage size reached 1.4 TB as of 2026, compared to 650 GB in 2018.

Truebit Protocol was exploited on January 8, 2026, with 8,535 ETH ($26.44M) stolen from "Truebit Protocol: Purchase".

Glamsterdam upgrade featuring Block-Level Access Lists (BALs) is scheduled to go live in 2026, aimed at reducing gas costs and improving block processing efficiency.

$2.22B worth of BTC and ETH options expire on 2026-01-10.

Completed two major protocol upgrades during 2025.

Has 975,088 active validators and 35.67 million ETH staked.

Validator exit queue collapsed, indicating reduced validator exits from the network.

Made new hires including binji_x and lou3ee in recent personnel additions.

Fell below $3,100 price level on January 8, 2026.

SEC approved Bitwise's spot Chainlink ETF application for listing on NYSE Arca, which could become the second LINK ETF to trade in the US.

Preston van Loon, Ethereum Core Developer and co-founder of Prysmatic Labs, is scheduled to speak at ETHDenver 2026.

SharpLink accumulated 10,657 ETH in cumulative staking rewards, earning 438 ETH in the week prior to January 7, 2026.

Wyoming's state-issued stablecoin $FRNT launched with cross-chain bridging support that includes Ethereum among seven supported networks.

Integrated into Yield Basis's IL-free, high-fee WETH–crvUSD liquidity backbone pools launching on Curve, enabling ETH LPs to access leveraged yield without impermanent loss.

EthCC conference scheduled to take place in Cannes at the Palais des Festivals from March 30 through April 2, 2026.

Morgan Stanley filed S-1 registration statement with SEC for an Ethereum Trust on January 7, 2026.

Achieved $197 million in swap volume on Ethereum through Jumper Exchange in December 2025.

AMA with Ethereum Foundation's Justin Drake scheduled for January 9, 2026 at 1PM GMT hosted by Reya.

Generated $2.58M in fees during the first week of 2026, ranking 4th among major blockchains.

World Liberty Financial withdrew 162.69 WBTC ($14.98M) from Aave and swapped 27.12 WBTC ($2.5M) for 770.6 ETH.

Coinbase removes the ETH-DAI order book on 2026-01-06.

Dango Mainnet Alpha launched with ETH-USDC spot trading pair and deposits from Ethereum L1, featuring a 10% daily withdrawal rate limit as a safety precaution.

Reached Stage 1 decentralization on Base by shipping permissionless fault proofs and establishing a 10-member independent Security Council in 2025.

Experienced sandwich attacks occurring every 36 seconds on Ethereum, totaling 72,283 sandwich attacks affecting 26,597 victims over a 30-day period.

Powers pre-deposit vaults on Status Network to help bootstrap the first gasless Ethereum L2, with four vaults (SNT, Linea, WETH, and GUSD) accumulating over $1 million in TVL through Aragon infrastructure.

Generated approximately $5 billion in revenue from stablecoin issuer deployments during 2025.

3x leveraged BTC, ETH, and GOLD tokens launched on Ethereum through Index Coop.

90% of Cosmos Hub's IBC V2 transaction volumes are landing on Ethereum through IBC Eureka infrastructure.

ETH spot ETFs recorded $168 million in net inflows on January 6, 2026.

Combined transactions per second on all Ethereum rollups reached an average of 5600 TPS for the first time.

New addresses hit their largest single-day increase since early 2018 on December 31, 2025.

A multisig drainer who stole $27.3 million withdrew 1,000 ETH ($3.24 million) from Aave and laundered it via Tornado Cash on January 6, 2026, having deposited a total of 6,300 ETH ($19.4 million) to Tornado Cash.

Address 0xB8b4...3714 laundered 2,479.1 ETH ($7.9M) via TornadoCash, with funds originating from TRON wallets and linked to a pig-butchering crypto investment scam.

Has $300 billion in application TVL.

BlackRock clients purchased 31,737 ETH worth $100.23 million.